Picture-frame.



Nn. 654,514. Patened July 24, |900.

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PICTURE FRAME.

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No. 654,5l4. Patented Iuly 24, |900.. E. CARMINE.

PICTURE FRAME.

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PICTURE FRAME.

(Application filed J'an.'27, 1900.)

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EUGENE oAEEAINaoE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

,PICTURE-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,514, dated uly 24, 1900.

Application iiled January 27, 1900. Serial No. 2,979. .No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE OARRAINE, a citizen of the United States, residingin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Picture-Frames,of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to certain improvements in frames especially adapted for holding photographs and other small pictures.

The object of my invention is to so oonstruct the frame that a series of them can be attached one below another or side by side or used singlyor in groups, the means of attaching the frames being obscured from View from the front, at the same time allowing for the insertion or removal of the picture, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of my photographic frame. Fig. 2 is an edge view. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 8, Fig. 1. Fig. t is a detached perspective view showing the three sections of the frame. Fig. 5 is a front view showing a series of the frames attached one below another. Fig. 6 is a rear view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is an edge View of Fig. 5. Figs. 8 and 9 are views of a frame having the attaching means at the sides aswell as at the top and bottom. Fig. 10 is a view of a round frame, and Fig. 11 is a view of a modification of my invention.

A is the facing of the frame, made in the present instance of cardboard. This facing is cut out at a, so as to expose the picture. The facing A may be covered with any suitable material, either fancy papers or fabric, or may be made of wood, metal, or other material; but I prefer cardboard, as the frames are particularly adapted to be strung in series and must be made light and inexpensive. The facing may be'of any shape desired quadrangular, as shown in Fig. l, or circular, as shown in Fig. 10. B is the backing, also preferably made of cardboard,and D is the fill- -ing-piece, which in the present instance is the bottom acts as a support for the photograph or other picture.

The strip d when near other fastening may be readily passed through A the eyelet. The recess c for the picture, between the back and the facing, and the recess e allow sufficient space for the passage of the ribbon or other fastening.

In manufacturing the frame, the several pieces are made of cardboard or other suitable material, the eyelets being secured in position on the backing.V The filling-piece D is secured to the backing by any suitable ceinenting agent, and the facing afterbeing cov ered, if desired, is secured to the filling-piece. Thus the frame is completed, leaving sufficient space for the insertion of a picture and also leaving space for the eyelets to be threaded with ribbon or other fastening means.

As shown in Fig. l, the facing hides the eyelets, sothat to all appearances the frame is simply an ordinary frame. A single frame can be hung up by simply passing a ribbon or cord through the upper eyelets, and as the pictures accumulate frames can be purchased and attached one under another, as shown clearly in Figs. 5, G, and 7, by ribbons or other attaching means.

The frames may be sold singly, or a numA ber of frames may be attached together by ribbons or chains and sold in series, as in Fig. 5.

While I have shown a series of frames all of the same size, it will be understood that by my invention frames differing in size may be coupled together.

In Figs. 8 and 9 I have shown a modification in which recesses e2 c3 are formed on the side in addition to the recesses e c at the upper and lower edges. By this arrangement in a frame having an elongated opening the frame can be used for either an upright or a horizontal picture. In Fig. 8 I have shown the filling-piece inclosing the space for the picture. The backing is slit in this instance,

as indicated in Fig. 9, so as to allow for the insertion of the picture between the backing and the casing.

In Fig. ll I have shown the eyelets in the backing at the corners instead of at the upper and lower edges, and the iilling-piece is.`

cutaway at the corners, so as to make the recesses between the backing and the facing.v This frame can also be used for either a ver-.

tical or horizontal picture.

. It will be understood that modifications of the invention will readily suggest themselves, according to the character of the frame used, the object being to provide means of attachingthe frames in series without exposing to View, thelopenings or other means of attachment when used as as a single picture or in series, as shown in Fig. 5, in which view only the ribbons connecting the pictures are cX- `posed.

gether, said means being secured to the backing, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the backing, the facing having an opening to expose the picture, a filling-section between the backing and facing out out to form spaces between the backing and facing, and holes in the opposite edges of the backing, so that two or vmore frames can be coupled together, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a backing, a facing cut out to expose the picture, a cut-out fillingpiece between the facing and. backing so as to form cavities between the facing and backing, eyelets near the opposite edges ofthe backing, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a backing, a facing cut out to expose a picture, a filling-piece with cavities at four sides, and openings in the backing in line with the cavities so that the series of frames can be strung together either in an upright orhorizontal position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EUGENE CARRAINE.

Vitnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

